Quotes on Freedom

[Paradise-on-Earth]

True, unconditional LOVE- and true FREEDOM.

Source sees you, and feels only appreciation for that which you are- regardless of the condition that you're living!
Because source is so practiced in this knowing of well-being that the condition that you are currently living, does not dissuade it from its knowledge of well-being.

Unconditional love is:
Staying in the vibration of source, regardless of the condition.

Conditional love says:
"I want to feel good when I see this- I do, when I see that- I don't.
So, this condition has to change: so, that I can feel better!

Unconditional love says: I am source. and I am love,
regardless of the condition.

So, that's why man translates that to say: "God is love", or: "God loves all".
Unconditional love- that's what you're all reaching for.

You want to be tuned in, tapped in, turned on, to who you are. And living in this world it's the best of everything to be! In this world, where you're mixing it up, getting new ideas, and then coming into alignment with it.

The only freedom that you will ever find is the freedom from the bondage of resistance.
In other words, what resistance is is not allowing yourself to be who you really are!

All pain and suffering are about diverging from who you really are. All joy and alignment is about coming into vibrational frequency with who you really are! And that is the epitome it is most descriptive word for what love is.
Love is the absence of resistance.
Love is vibrational alignment with that which is source.
Love is tuned in, tapped in, turned on.
Love is vibrational alignment with source!
Unconditional love is vibrational alignment with source, even when there is something that I don't want happening.
You're a lot of trouble, you know!

HS:
So, can can you offer us some words that would de-socialize us, so that we get to the point... well, what are... what are some words we could practice, when we're by ourselves, that would shore up this notion of putting how we feel above, what others...

Abe:
"I love you so much, I don't care what you think."

HS:
Saying that to the peanut gallery?

Abe:
To anyone! "I love, I love you so much- I don't care what you think."

Now, think about what that's saying:
"I SO care about being in vibrational alignment with who I am! Because, if I am in vibrational alignment with who I am, then I have love to give. But if I am catering to what you want, rather than to my own guidance- then I've not tuned in, tapped in, turned on! I have nothing to give! I love you so much, I don't care what you think." or: "I love you so much, I must tune to the source within me, and I cannot tune to the source within me and tune to what you want, at the same time! Don't make me choose between alignment with source, and what you think you want, at this moment! If you will allow me, or whether you do, or not, to align with who I am -then I can shine the energy of source upon you. And you will thrive!

But if you convince me that I should cater to you, rather than align with Who I am, then I'll be out here on the raw and ragged edge with you. And we'll just fight it out, and blame each other, for how bad we feel. with you I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK."

When you get there, and can deliver that with a straight face, you'll have it.

Those do not understand: Well, what do you mean? If you'd love me, you'd care what I think!?" -well it goes like this: "I do love you! I love you so much, I don't care what you think." -"What do you mean?" -"Well, you think I'm wrong. But in order to love you, I must know that I'm source. And I can't know that I'm source, and know that I'm wrong at the same time! So,

in order to love you, I have to be in alignment with source.

And when I'm in alignment with source, I don't care what you think! In other words, it's solid." It's just hard to get them to hear it, because you know how irrational people are, when they're out on the raw and ragged edge... in other words, you you can't get sick enough to help sick people get well- and yet, you think that you can get disconnected enough to get disconnected people to be connected!

You can only help people align with source, from your vantage point of being aligned with source.

And you can't be aligned with source, and catering to what they think at the same time. You just can't do it! Maybe there are other words, that would be better:
-"I love you so much I don't care what you think." We like that. That's our first choice!

-"I see you as you really are. Not as you are being in this moment. I know the power of your being, and I know the reason that you are so upset right now, is because you are right now not allowing yourself to be the brilliant, beautiful, tuned in, tapped in, turned on person, that I fell in love with to begin with. And if you don't mind, I'm gonna go away, and I'm gonna hold the thought of who I know you really are, rather than wallow with you in this disconnected state." Getting better! (Audience cheering) How about this:

-"I've seen you in your alignment. And I've seen you not in your alignment. And I like you best, when you're in your alignment, but when I'm in my alignment- it doesn't matter." That's good, too!

-"When I'm tuned in, tapped in, turned on- you can be any way you want to me. Because my love for you is unconditional! I am no longer gonna hold you responsible for how I feel!" What freedom you give to anyone that you would say that to!

-"I no longer hold you responsible for how I feel. I'm in charge of how I feel! I'm in charge of how I feel, and I so know that, that I don't even have to ask the same back from you." That was good, too!

-"I'm so good at unconditional love that I don't need you to know how to do it!" ...think about what we're saying here:

"I'm tuned in, tapped in, turned on. I'm thriving, no matter what you do. You're not the boss of me: I am. I have the ability to align with source, regardless of the conditions that surround me. I get unconditional love."


From the youtube-clip "Abraham Hicks - Practice the feeling of Unconditional LOVE / No Ads during"

[spiritualcookie]

You will never be free until you are rid of the negativity dominating your experience.

And you will never be rid of negativity dominating your experience until you are in control of your thoughts.

And you will never be in control of your thoughts until you understand that you can be, and the importance of it.

- Abraham


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Someone recently offered a paper to Esther, promoting world peace, wanting to get ot he point where everyone upon the Earth at a certain time of day, will stop for a moment and ponder or meditate upon world peace.

And as Esther asked us what we thought about it, we said, "You are making a very broad assumption if you think everyone in the world wants peace, and you are also making a very broad assumption when you assume that peace if what should be."

Even though it is a wonderful thing, and even though you know you like it better than war, still you must not see yourselves as one who has the ability to thrust your intentions upon another - because that is not freedom.

For if you have the power to do that to them, then they have the power to thrust war upon you. And neither is accurate, because neither is free, and all of you are free, you see.

- AH

[spiritualcookie]

Rebelliousness comes from feeling a lack of Freedom

You are such a freedom seeker. [...]

As you see anyone that you describe as rebellious - and it is predominantly the teenagers that you give that label to - they are experiencing the same thing:

They seek freedom so much, and as their freedom is continually squelched, they find themselves rebelling, because it is their passion for freedom that keeps coming to the surface, very powerfully, as they are feeling lack of it. [...]

You do not have a reason to feel rebellious when you feel your absolute freedom and when you understand that your behaviour is not linked to any other.

- Abraham

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When you feel your freedom, you don't feel the need to justify your behaviour to others

As you feel your freedom (as a result perhaps of connecting with your Inner Being who knows its freedom), then you lose that feeling of having to convince anyone that what you're doing is all right. You lose that feeling of justification.

- AH


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On being free from the need to please others

When you feel free, you're free to be who you want to be under any and all conditions, and you really don't worry about what anybody else thinks about it, because you know that what they think about you is their problem. It has nothing to do with you.

And when you really feel that way, you become in the greatest place that we know of, which is the place of allowing.

And you know you are in the place of allowing when you can see another not approving of you, and it is ok with you.

We're not talking about tolerance.
We're not talking about say, "Well, I'll let them..." and still feel the negativity.
We're talking about knowing that they disapprove of what you are doing, and that is all right with you because you know that it is their world that they are creating by their attitude toward you. And you need not let their feeling influence you.


- AH

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On feeling peer pressure to conform (rather than being free to be different)

You are such a freedom seeker. [...]

And so, as you feel negativity, because you feel as if the world wants you to conform, just step back a little bit and look at a broader you.

Your greatest concern is when you are in a very narrow little box, in a box of 'family' or 'church' or 'community', where there is predominant influence.
That is where you feel your greatest desire or need to conform in order not to have disapproval.

But as you step out of that little box, and get a little bit bigger view of the world, you realize that there are so many different beings wanting so many different things, that to find conformity is not a possible thing. Do you know that there are people in parts of this world that eat bugs? [...]

We are wanting you to understand there is absolutely no value in trying to conform, and further ,we are wanting you to understand that the idea of conformity is absolutely opposite, it is in absolute contradiction to your reason for existence.

You cam forth into this physical experience at this time because you saw all of the variety as great advantage to you, because you are a creator. [...]

The more thought, the more ideas, the more beliefs that abound, the better workshop you have in which to create, and the more data you have to chew upon in order to make your decisions about what would please you most. [...]

Bask in the differences whenever you see something different.

- Abraham

[spiritualcookie]

Jerry: I was raised in a culture that believe that you stayed with the same wife, and you stayed with the same job. [...]
How does a person live in a culture that believe in staying with whatever your decision originally was, and still be allowed to change as an individual?

Abraham: Very painfully.
Most do not deal with it very well because it defies, or goes against your absolute quest for freedom.
And so, as you feel restricted by society's rules and Laws, most of you struggle and squirm within them.
Most of you resent it, and most of you begin defending or justifying your position, thereby attracting more negative emotion to you.

What we would like to impart to you is that whether you know it or not, or whether you acknowledge it or not, you live in absolute freedom.

You are so free that every thought that you think is represented into what you are living. How much freer than that can you be?
You are so free that every thought enters into the balance of what you live.

Yours laws do not affect you, it is your attention to your laws that affect you.

Your neighbors do not affect you, it is your attention to your neighbors that affect you.

It turns out that you are absolute in your freedom if you could acknowledge that.

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Pleasing others through Conformity reduces freedom

In a society that wants you to conform, those of you who know and recognize your freedom, from inner perspective, squirm and resist and have great difficulty with that - until finally you acknowledge that you are free. And usually you end up saying, "I just don't care."

You finally reach the point where you are not trying so hard to please the others because you are finally wise enough to discover you can't please them no matter how hard you try. There are too many of them. There are too many different intentions. Too many different beliefs.

So finally you withdraw from hat arena where you cannot win, and you step back into the arena of clarity where you always win.
The arena of identifying what YOU are wanting and then, in a disciplined manner, utilizing your discipline to think about what you are wanting.

- Abraham

[spiritualcookie]

On discussions about creating laws that seem to curb freedom

We have been hearing Jerry... as he hears about the new considerations by the Supreme Court to have the sobriety check-point whether you are drinking or not, whether there is any reason or not to be stopped and examined, and another ruling regarding punishment for flag-burning.

As these issues begin to come forth, many of you, who are freedom seekers at your very core, begin to acknowledge,
"Where will it all end? If they can begin offering these sorts of legislations to control our behaviour on one thing, then where will it end?"

And we say to you - What are you doing with the non-physical energy regarding that subject? When you have those sorts of feelings that say "What is it going to lead to?" then we say, you are utilizing the non-physical energy against the freedom that you seek.

Your resistance to what you think they're doing to you, is what is really affecting your experience more than what they are doing to you with their laws.

- AH

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You can choose whether to let the words of others curb your freedom - or not

Give your attention to what you are wanting.
Withdraw your attention from what you are not wanting.
And live in the freedom that is absolutely yours.
The freedom that no-one, under any conditions, can ever take away from you, no matter how hard they try.

If their words can bother you, you are not free.
If you allow their words to bother you, it is the words that bind you.

More of you are affected by the words of others than you are by your own experience.

- Abraham

[spiritualcookie]

On Freedom in the Context of Parenting & the Freedom of Children

It is not easy for parents to release their children.
Parents like the idea of freedom as it relates to them.
They just don't like the idea of freedom as it relates to their children.

They say to their children, "I am free in the Universe, but you are not.
I am free to think and be as I choose, but you are not because you are too little and not smart enough to figure out what is good for you."

It starts when you're young, and then you wonder why it carries on until there are still those, when you are grown ups, that treat you that way, you see.

You are either free, or you are not. [...]

And so, we say, a parent must allow their child the freedom to have experience.

How else is the child able to do what he came here to do?

If the child has someone else making all decisions for him, he will never learn to decide for himself.
He will never be the deliberate creator he has come forth to be.

And the child resents and resists and rebels from that feeling of not enough freedom.

- Abraham

[Paradise-on-Earth]

How we teach and get taught to listen to others- instead of following our inner guidance

A man said to us one day, years ago: "(...) My mother hates me. My father hates me. I have a hard time!" -and we said: "How do you feel about your mother?" and he said: "I hate her, too. I hate her, because she hates me." And we said: "So, neither one of you are coming into alignment with who you are! And you're using each other as your excuse, why not to come into alignment.

When what you've come forth to teach is: Alignment, anyway.

What you've come forth to teach is: "I can align with the source within me, regardless of what those outside of me are reflecting back to me. And this is the most significant thing about this! Almost everyone, even those who've been listening to us for a while, cannot separate how they feel about things from how other people feel about things.

So, most people... in other words, almost the first thing you do with your children is: You teach them patterns of behavior, that make your life better or that you think will make them have an easier time in the society in which they will live. And as you convince your children, that they should do what you want them to do: "you should do what makes them feel better", rather than what closes their gap for them!

In early ages you teach them to listen outside of themselves.

That's why we have a room full of people in every city that we visit, who are accustomed to listening more to what's coming from another person... in other words, approval is so meaningful to you, when it comes from other people. And disapproval is so meaningful to you, when it comes from other people.

And we want that disapproval or approval, that comes from other people- even if it's your mother!- to not matter to you as much as the way you feel!

And that's what we said to this man, "that's what you've come forth to teach!"
You've come forth to teach. Because when you say to your child: "You need to do such and such, so that I will feel better"- then you set them up to listen to another and another and another. Until before long, most everybody is more interested in what everybody else thinks! And then they've lost track of their ability to quantify their journey.

Abraham Hicks

[Paradise-on-Earth]

Honor others (and yourself!) for following their inner, unique guidance!
(Dealing with Pain, with gay people, with all sorts of Uncontrollables and "disorders"...)

We're visiting with a woman one day who had pain in her body and she said: "Abraham, how can I think positive thoughts when my body hurts so much? And we said: "we know what you're living is what it is. But there's a difference between having pain in your body, and feeling fear- and having pain in your body and feeling hope.

And the difference between fear and hope is the vibrational difference between recovery or not.

In other words, we were trying to teach her how to quantify the journey between sickness and wellness. How to feel her way, you see, where most people aren't encouraging anybody to feel their way into vibrational alignment, in order to have a better life! They're trying to teach them, they're trying to motivate them to respond to this rule, and to respond to this law, and respond to this disapproval or this approval.

So it is rampant in this civilization today- it is rampant almost nobody is listening to their own guidance!
Almost nobody is deliberately closing their gap.
Almost everybody cares what somebody else says or thinks, about what they're doing!

And so many people are coming forth, saying "well, try this one on, because this is an orientation that was set forth, before I came forth into this physical experience! And I can't change it, even if you want me to", you see. And so, there are all kinds of ornery little buggers being born- and we don't mean that from our point of view. We mean:

Pioneers of deliberate, powerful creation.
Teachers to the core of their being!

But they're being greeted by those who are immediately slapping labels on them. Like, oh there are so many. Like nonconformist with lots of different labels... "uncontrollable". Uh, "you have this disorder and this disorder and this disorder and this disorder!" -and we say:

Yay for the disorders! All of these disorders coming forth! The non-conformist coming forth, to teach unconditional love!

You see... and so, it is so delightful when you are able to assist someone. It's a great gift you give to someone, when you say:
"Well this is what is. And I'm not going to change it, so that you can feel better! This is what is."

And it's a hard thing to do, because you want them to be happy. So, when Kate wants to come to see Esther, and Esther really wants Kate to come- but Esther's got a big long list of things that she needs to do. So, Esther says "be better if we don't do it today!" and Esther hears the disappointment in Kate's voice. It's hard for Esther not to change something, to make Kate feel better. Because Esther would run over herself with the bus, if she thought it would make Kate feel better. But we want Esther to let Kate work it out on her own! And, she would, every time.

Abraham Hicks

[Paradise-on-Earth]

Are our lives pre-planned by us?
Also: Dying clears ALL resistances and returns us into pure positive energy again!
THERE IS NO KARMA!

HS:
That's the world I seem to live in lately- well, since I was little. But there's a lot of people seem to always talk about like Michael Newton, about coming down here on Earth, and we pick our families.

Abe:
You do vibrationally pick everything.

HS:
Vibrationally, right. Right. Can we talk a little bit about that?

Abe:
Yeah, it's because from non-physical, in absence of resistance, you make deliberate choices about what you think is the best platform. From which you will launch your creative experience, here. So, that the things that really matter to you, are available to you in that springboard, that you call birthplace, and the first family.

HS:
So, let's talk about what happens on the other side. I mean, it seems like Michael Newton talks a lot about that. And I'm in that world, too. I do hypnosis myself, too, and he speaks that, when we make our transition, we go back to our families of (...) and we plan our lives.

Abe:
Well, the thing about that is is, that you re-emerge immediately into the vibration that is YOU. But it's expanded! you're not going back! You're going forward.

It sounds like back, because you were there- and then you were here. But it's not back! Because that part of you never left "there"! That part of you never left there, and so as you come and expand, then the expanded version of you returns to all of that.

HS:
But then we seem to plan our lives, coming back down here. But then you've talked about, that there really is no plan?

Abe:
Well instead of using the word "plan", let's use the word "intent". In other words, who you are and the vibration that you're offering- we made an attempt at explaining this a few minutes ago, so we're going to circle back around and do it again. Because we want to help you to realize, that you don't create through action. You create through point of Attraction. And when you come into this physical body, you come with intention.

But the intention expands, and evolves, as a result of your participation here!

So, it's not quite the way you are describing it!

HS:
So, are we responsible for our actions? Because I know... I had a conversation with someone else and I'm a firm believer, that yes, we are responsible! Because that's the life, that we choose to come down here. Then there's that karmic reaction, that we all seem to have, like, let's say we had a past life and we were horrible, let's say. And we go back and it was meant to be, but now we have to come back, and...

Abe:
But here's the flaw in that premise. So when we talk about source and the vibrational place for lack, an easier way to just say it quickly- that

you've come from that vibrational non-physical being, that is non-resistant, pure positive energy, Liquid Love, pure positive energy, pure intent and pure desire, and worthy beyond description, and eager to continue the creative process!

So, then a part of that comes into this physical time-space-reality. And is the personality, that you know as "you". And so, to the degree that you are in Alignment with who you are, you are living joyful moments. To the degree that you're resisting who you are, you are living less than joyful moments! But that's as big as the Badness gets!

In other words- there is this stream of goodness, which you allow or don't, in any moment in time. But when you make your transition back into non-physical, you stop the resistance and you are purely received by non-physical! And so it's like the non-physical was the clearing. Because, you left behind all of the resistant parts.

That's why the notion of Karma and Redemption is so skewed. It is inaccurate! It cannot possibly be!

Because that would say, that you take all of that with you, and you don't!
That would say, that that high flying vibration would also include those lower vibrations- and it can't.

It's vibrationally inaccurate! It's vibrationally impossible. That's not the way that it is! But humans try to explain bad things that they see, in all kinds of ways. And so, there are a lot of interpretations about things like that, that cannot be. And so the karma- we will go along with that, in the sense that you come and you expand, and you become, and you come again,

but you're coming not to climb the rungs of the karmic ladder. You come again for the joyous creating!

Because that's who we all are.
Because creation is what we do!
Because expansion is inevitable.
Because in the eternalness that is us, nothing else makes sense! Does it?

HS:
No, yeah, so... it's more like a learning process, that we're coming down here...?

Abe:
Of course you learn, you can't help it.
But you're not coming for the learning! You're coming for the joy!
There's this Triad of intentions, that you come in on: freedom and growth and joy. And that's the basis of Who You Are.

You're so free, you can choose bondage. And growth is inevitable. So, you come for the joyous experience! But all of it is part of what you ARE.

HS:
So there really is no planning involved? That's we...

Abe:
Yes, there is! Yes there is!
There's the plan to live happily ever after!
There's the plan to feel who you really are!
There's the plan to discover what's new!
There's the plan, to feel more momentum!
There's the plan to be of value!
There's the plan to help others experience Heaven on Earth!
There's the plan to be in the moment!
There's a plan to feel your empowerment!
There's the plan to be physical, and to be tangible!
There's a plan to translate vibration into something that's even more tangible!

Source seeing- imagine that!!! -Source being in an environment, with all this beauty to see! Yeah there's a plan!! There's an intention!!

HS:
So there's an intention of picking our family, for a purpose, you know? This particular group... I picked my parents, you know...?

Abe:
Well, you're not a puppet on a string from even those intentions! Because those intentions are general and you fill the specifics in- because that's what's fun!

HS:
Okay, so if I wanted to experience, like I said, more metaphysical... being in contact with... that's all my own planning, as I came down here to experience for the joy of it?

Abe:
You know how you can tell that you're on your life purpose- plan?

HS:
That's a good question, yeah!

Abe:
...By the way you feel on your path.

The happier you are, the more you are satisfying that so-called plan, that you keep insisting on calling it. And the worse you feel, the more off the path you are in the moment. So, yes of course there's intention. But the thing that you're pointing us toward, and we are refusing to go to, is that you're wanting to assign a plan that must be followed.

And we're wanting you to understand, it was this Broad and Powerful, but General plan, that you are creating the specifics off from HERE, from THIS format!

And the closer you are to those non-physical intentions, the better you feel. And oh, this is the part that we want to tell you the most!! Oh, if you want to call it a plan, do! WE want you to know, that every day you live, that plan evolves. And that's the way we've been describing it. That as you sift through this environment, and know what you don't want, you launch rockets. And who-you-are becomes that "more". And so, as that "more" happens vibrationally -not future tense, but present tense!! -it is a reality, that now exists.

Now you get to experience the deliciousness of catching up with that newly plotted plan!

HS:
That's good! (Abe: it is good!) That's good very good! Yeah. So basically when, like the lady was talking about astrological charts and things like that, just it's fun to play with, but it's not really...?

Abe:
We're not asking you ever to discount anything!
Because there's value in everything! And sometimes, some of those things that we're really not talking about a lot from this platform, they were exactly on your path, along the way. In other words, they were the next logical step for you! Because it caused you to realize, that there was something more. And it made you think about you, before you were here in this physical body. And it introduced to you the idea of intentionality. And it made you realize, that you are much more than you see, here in this physical body! There was value in that!! But eventually, we want you to get around to the acknowledgment of your own guidance system, and once you click into that knowledge, everything else that you're using as guidance, is less significant to you. And- you can't go back! There's no regression! In other words- religion's just fine. As long as it leads you to your own alignment!
But if it replaces your alignment, it's not so fine for you.


from the youtube clip Abraham Hicks - FEEL YOUR EMPOWERMENT

[Paradise-on-Earth]

You are the Creator of your own experiences.
And Universal Forces, God, All-that-is, are assisting you
in accomplishing ANYTHING you desire!

There are absolutely NO LIMITS for you!

Abraham Hicks